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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



lower 3-tootlied. Corolla of Cytisus. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; 5 

 alternate anthers shorter versatile ; 5 others longer subbasifixed. 

 Germen co-ovulate; apex of style minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. 

 Legume ovate, oblong, or more rarely elongated exserted (Staur- 

 acant/ius 1 ) or shortly linear, compressed or turgid, continuous within, 

 2-valved. Seeds arillate. — Shrubs, bristling with spinous branches ; 

 leaves reduced to scales or spinescent petioles, exstipulate ; flowers 2 

 solitary or few racemose, in axils of scales or spines at extremities 

 of twigs ; bracts small, bractlets 2, short, inserted at top of pedicel 

 below flower, or {Western Europe, north-western Africa?). 



204. Erinacea Boiss. 4 — Eeceptacle scarcely concave, minute glan- 

 dular. Calyx membranous inflated ; 5 teeth very nearly equal or 2 

 superior a little longer. Petals long-unguiculate, standard ovate, 

 sub-2-auriculate at base ; wings narrow ; keel curved ; claw of 

 standard to a small height, claws of wings and keel to a much 

 greater height adnate to staminal tube. Stamens 10, all connate to 

 a considerable height into a closed tube ; oppositipetalous anthers 

 shorter versatile ; alternipetalous longer subbasifixed. Germen 

 sessile oo-ovulate ; style curved ; apex minutely capitate stigmatiferous. 

 Legume oblong glandular villous 2-valved. Seeds exarillate. — A 

 low shrub ; branches rigid spinescent bristling often almost leafless ; 

 leaves scattered minute silky, 1-foliolate or digitate 3-foliolate; flowers 6 

 solitary or in twos or threes, axillary towards extremities of branches ; 

 bracts and 2 small bractlets inserted below flower, foliaceous (Spain 7 ). 



205. Hypocalpytus Thunb. 8 — Calyx intruded at base ; teeth short, 

 nearly equal. Corolla almost that of Cytisus; standard callous within 

 at very short claw, longer than or about equal to curved keel, more 

 rarely shorter (Loddigcsia?). Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; filaments 



Suppl., i. 273 ; III., t. 621.— DC, Prodr., ii. 

 144. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, i. 197. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6495.— B. H., Gen., 483, n. 65. 



1 Link, in Schrad. Neue Journ., ii. p. 2, 52. — 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 144.— Endl., Gen., n. 6496. 



2 Yellow. 



3 Species about 10. Webb, Otia Hispan., 26, 

 t. 18-38. — Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, xi. t. 

 9. — Gben. & Gode., Fl. de Fr., i. 341. — Walp., 

 Ann., ii. 339 ; iii. 846 ; iv. 466. 



4 Voy., 145.— Endi., Gen., n. 6191.— B. H., 

 Gen., 483, n. 64. 



5 Which is the chief difference between Erina- 

 cea and section Spartocarpus of Genista. 



6 Pale violet. 



7 Species 1. E. pungens Boiss. — Anfhyllis 

 erinacea L., Spec, 1014. — DC, Prodr., ii. 169, 

 n. 7. — Sims, in Bot. Mag., t. 676. — Andb., Bot. 

 Bepos., i. t. 15. — Obex. & Godb., Fl. de Fr., i. 

 345. 



8 Prodr. FL Cap., 126; Fl. Cap., 568 (part.).— 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 135. — Endl., Gen., n. 6477. — 

 B. H., Gen., 484, n. 67. 



9 Sims, in Bot. Mag., t. 965.— DC, Prodr., 



